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Before creating an account you will need to know which of our family of business simulation products your instructor has chosen for you course. Please contact your instructor if you are unsure.
To play you will need to first register for the correct simulation.
Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer 8.0 supported for all simulations.
If you need help creating your student account or with purchasing Micromatic/Mogul view this tutorial.
There are many more student video tutorials available at:
Student Video Tutorials
Micromatic and Mogul are computer-based business simulation games that simulate a small manufacturing company.
The product is sold through retail markets to the general public.
The prices you charge for your products, the level of quality you build into them,
plus how you choose to promote them, are decisions you will constantly face.
You will also have to decide whether to make the products yourself or to sub-contract the manufacture of them to another company.
There are two versions for both the Micromatic and Mogul simulations, Team and Solo. In Team you will be part of
a group that will manage your company. Your company will compete with other companies in the same
marketplace that will be managed by other groups in your class. In Team,
the administrator processes the decisions that teams make regarding the operation of their company
after collecting the decisions from all the competing teams. After processing, the teams will
make a new set of decisions based on the results of those just processed.
Each decision-round represents three months of operations (i.e., one quarter of a year).
Solo is the play-alone version of the Team.
The solo version places you in competition with companies managed by the computer rather than by
other groups in your class. The computer uses its own logic to manage these companies.
While your competitors will act rationally, they are not all-knowing, perfect competitors.
With practice, you can successfully compete against these companies.
In Solo you process the decisions for the companies.
This includes the decisions you entered for your company as well as those determined by the
computer for your competitors.
When using the simulation Game, you will:
- Decide your company mission, goals, policies, and strategies.
- Develop skills in planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling a business.
- Make decisions in the areas of:
- Marketing, including market research and sales forecasts.
- Finance, including short-term and long-term loans.
- Manufacturing, including raw materials orders, production volume, scheduling, staffing, and inventory control.
- Have the opportunity to ask "what-if" questions by entering a sales estimate and seeing what the
results of your decisions would be given this level of sales.
- See the results of your decisions and have an opportunity to correct mistakes in the following quarters of operation.
Need help getting started? Check out the Getting Help page for links to manuals, tutorials, helpful hints, and more.
There are many student video tutorials available at:
Student Video Tutorials
Register and start playing Micromatic
Register and start playing Mogul
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